Description
Contents: On Exhibit – Vanishing Frontier (The record left by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer and German Prince Maximillian of their expedition into the wilderness in 1832.), Preservation – By Dint of the Drawing Pen (With his sketchbook, artist Robert Miles Parker has saved a number of buildings that less discerning eyes have overlooked.), Food – Cook, Collector and Historian (At his stove and with his books, the versatile William Woys Weaver is exploring the origins of Pennsylvania German cookery.), Collecting – Mansion of Happiness (The title of the country’s earliest board game could also describe Lee Dennis’s house-turned-board-game-museum.), Travel – The Four Corners (Where the ancient civilization of the Anasazi blends with the cultures of Native Americans living there today.), Iconography – The Many Faces of Abe (A new book and exhibit it show us how Lincoln’s public saw him.), Restorations – Requiem for a Tourist Trap (The Boot Hill Museum seeks to make changes that will document Dodge City’s true role in the development of the West.), Collecting – Rose-Colored Postals (These colorful postcards, now highly collectible, showed their subjects as favorably as possible.)
Issue: January – February 1984
Condition: Very Good